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Just did that - Thank you!
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While I understand that this thread has been discussed from a developer point of view, we need to look at it from a user point of view. I am a 66 year old amateur programmer, but I have friends who ask me to help them with computer issues. Most people, my age or even much younger, don't understand the ramifications of some "updates". They didn't realize, for example, that Windows 8 was going to look so radically different (Where's my start menu?). Yes, Windows 10 brought it back, but you can't stack the menu with what you want (rather than what you most recently used). Or at least I haven't found how yet from my one sacrificial lamb computer that I put Windows 10 on. Let's take a step back. Philosophically, I detest Microsoft's "Cloud First, Mobile First" thinking. No way would I store my data on someone else's "cloud" (i.e. servers). Data breaches, government spying, corporate "data mining", etc., is a fundamental denial of privacy and democracy. Edward Snowden made us all aware of what is going on. Windows 10 should be called Windows Spyware with its "advertising ID" feature and others which I have gone through in settings to turn off. When do we treat the user as the customer, not the corporations and governments?
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If you don't pay for the product - you are the product.
Trite, but true. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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This worked for me...
Get a cheap drive. Unplug all the others and install Win 7 (or whatever) on it. Let the Win10 upgrade happen. Remove the drive and re-connect your others. Now, as far MS are concerned, you have Win 10.
No more nag ware, well, for the time being...
To be honest though, I have Win 10 on a laptop and a PC and, once classic shell was installed, it works fine.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn't think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.
True dat!
veni bibi saltavi
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Same guy[^]?
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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beeyatch! 
veni bibi saltavi
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I guess it's a question of whether you'd prefer the option of possibly shooting yourself in the foot (Linux, which I just installed yesterday, dual booting with Win 8 on an HP 2000 notebook) or surely being shot in the ass (Microsoft 10-10, listenin' in---as for proof, I suggest you go with the preponderance of the evidence).
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Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this.
The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
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In Italy too, and I think in most of Europe. Probably because we HAVE a history, while the colonies are pretty new historically speaking.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
/xml>
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One, who afraid of the future, can definitely avoid it...
And the past was ... in the past - "one who comes from afar, can say whatever wants"...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: so we have to fudge it in like this
No, you don't have to! Retaining a facade can be done well and there are many fine examples up and down the country. Planning committees should be much more insistent on the integration of facades into the new building, not allow them to be bolt-ons in this ghastly manner.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I would only reply, as did Bill (Gates) when challenged about appropriating product ideas, "you shouldn't show them to me." Those London facades are a spot-on metaphor for Microsoft Windows, grin. Using Microsoft products is like having a well-loved dog that unfortunately keeps biting you when you least expect it.
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Sorry for the delay, I had to deal with a soon-to-be-dismembered birdie and the cat...he wasn't keen on letting go...
Peas! Pelicans! Escape! Hold my camera? (6)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Does this animal have less than four legs?
Life is too shor
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Animal?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have two, yes...and I make sure they reach the ground at all times when walking.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry, but no...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Tripod
I'm not quite sure about the explanation.
Tri: Three terms
Pod: All of them are pods (pea pod, pelican beak?, escape pod / capsule)
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 you put a camera on a tripod.
veni bibi saltavi
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Ha, I opened the Lounge, the IT Director rocked up behind me, minimised the window, stopped talking to someone for 5 minutes, then I brought my browser to the front, solved, saw that I was 5 minutes late.
I cannot believe he's done me a favour - your go tomorrow.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I thought of a tripod immediately when sawing it but it took nearly ten minutes until I could explain it as non-native English.
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